by Sara Isenberg on October 23, 2009
in Blogging,Constant Contact,Facebook,Project Management,Santa Cruz,Sara Isenberg,Social Media,Training,Twitter,Web Consulting,WordPress
I’m now offering two new services: Referrals to Experts and Training for Beginners
1. Find your Team — Referrals:
I work with known expert designers, developers, marketing professionals, writers, SEO geeks, and more. Let me help you find your team.
2. Training Services:
I offer individual or small group training on using Social Media — such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and blogging — and getting started on WordPress. I can either set up your accounts and make updates and edits while you watch, or help you learn how to do this for yourself. In addition to hands-on technical sessions, we can also discuss best practices and strategies around using Social Media. I can help you get started on Constant Contact Email Marketing. I don’t just fish for you, I teach you how to fish.
- WordPress: Get started on WordPress. WordPress for Beginners. Specifically for newbies!
- Social Media: Get started on Social Media. All the basics for Facebook, LinkedIn, Blogging, Twitter.
- Email Marketing: Create your own professional looking eNewsletters or Marketing emails with Constant Contact Email Marketing.
For more details, see: http://saraisenberg.com/training-and-sourcing/
Please contact me and let me know how I can help you!
Sara Isenberg
Sara Isenberg Web Consulting & Project Management
sara@saraisenberg.com
http://saraisenberg.com
831-334-0701
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From time to time I have clients who think WordPress is only for blogging, not for “regular” websites. Yes, WordPress is great for creating a nice looking and easy to maintain blog. However, WordPress is also a great CMS (Content Management System) that can be used to create a regular non-blog-looking website. And, because WordPress is a CMS, the website can be updated easily by people who aren’t web developers.
(Credit to Pro Blog Design)
http://www.problogdesign.com/inspiration/30-great-sites-using-wordpress-as-a-cms/
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After attending the Santa Cruz WordPress Meetup and crossing paths with Chris Burbridge several times a week, WordPress is a topic that’s been coming up more in the conversation these days. From attending the Nextspace WordPress brown bag lunch, to comparing WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal, to discussing what makes a quality theme, best practices, I’ve been telling folks about WP Remix, and just wanted to post this link as a resource and reminder:
WP Remix 3.0 is
…the only theme that offers WYSIWYG page template editing. Over 50 page templates to choose from. Web Stanards, Color schemes, Usability, grid, typography…
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From time to time, someone will ask me … Which is better: WordPress, Joomla, or Drupal?
The answer is… it depends.
- What is the project? How simple or robust? What features?
- Who is the developer? What are their skills?
- Who will be the site administrator? How friendly does the CMS editor need to be?
According to Bruce Byfield at linux.com:
Consistently, Drupal offered more fine-tuning and tools for managing multiple blogs, while WordPress, although less configurable than Drupal, proved easier to use and navigate.
Here are some resource summaries on this topic of comparing WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. Voila!
- Article mentioned above, by Bruce Byfield at Linux.com
- Article with CMS feature comparison chart, by Dan Knauss
- Article comparing just WordPress VS Drupal comparison, by Todd Zeigler
I put this information together yesterday to share with my cousin — he works for a Community Sponsored Radio Station — and then decided to share here, as well. Thanks, Norman, you inspired this post.
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I spent some time today talking with Sandra Ivany, Santa Cruz Wedding Photographer, about WordPress, Blogging, and SEO.
Since text content is very important for SEO, what’s a photographer to do when the page content is mostly an image or several images? Here are some quick resources that I found about SEO for photographers:
Much of this is generic SEO regardless of whether photography is involved, but it’s good to have some of the simple basics to share with a client.
Not specifically for photographers, SEOMOZ.org, has a great post about building the perfectly optimized page.
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